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ACCEPTANCES Page 1 of 25 May 2007 LoAR THE FOLLOWING ITEMS HAVE BEEN REGISTERED: ÆTHELMEARC Barbary Rose of Endless Hills. Name and device. Gules, a dragon displayed and in chief a rose Or. Submitted as Barbary Rose of the Endless Hills, the second byname was documented as a registered branch name. However, the branch name is registered as Endless Hills, Barony of without the article the. While the submitter will not accept major changes, she specifically allows dropping the article if this is necessary for registration. We have changed the name to Barbary Rose of_Endless Hills in order to register it. The submitter requested an authentic Elizabethan name. The name Barbary Rose is a lovely late 16th C English name, but it conflicts with the registered Barbary atte Rose. Therefore, we are unable to register the fully authentic form to her. Clarice Roan. Device. Per fess azure and argent, a dove rising wings displayed argent and a serpent palewise embowed counter-embowed gules. Clarice Roan. Badge. (Fieldless) In pale a dove rising wings displayed argent sustaining in its claws a serpent palewise embowed counter-embowed gules. Gunnarr of Endless Hills. Name and device. Purpure, two horses combatant Or and on a chief argent four roses gules. Submitted as Gunnarr of the Endless Hills, the byname was documented as a registered branch name. However, the branch name is registered as Endless Hills, Barony of without the article the. While the submitter will not accept major changes, he specifically allows dropping the article if this is necessary for registration. We have changed the name to Gunnarr of_Endless Hills in order to register it. Onóra inghean Chonaill. Device. Vert, a seahorse argent and on a chief Or three shamrocks vert. Tuathflaith ingen uí Chellaich. Device. Per bend sinister purpure and azure, a bend sinister argent between a sprig of three oak leaves bendwise inverted Or and a stag’s head couped, a bordure argent. Verederosa Dal Sol. Name and device. Per fess argent and vert, a rose vert barbed and seeded and a sun in splendor Or. AN TIR Amia Turner. Name. An Tir, Kingdom of. Heraldic title Black Antelope Herald. Submitted as Black Antelope, this title lacked the required designator. The kingdom submitted a timely correction noting that the designator should be Herald. Given this, we have registered this title as Black Antelope Herald. An Tir, Kingdom of. Heraldic title Black Falcon Herald. Submitted as Black Falcon, this title lacked the required designator. The kingdom submitted a timely correction noting that the designator should be Herald. Given this, we have registered this title as Black Falcon Herald. An Tir, Kingdom of. Heraldic title Black Talbot Herald. Submitted as Black Talbot, this title lacked the required designator. The kingdom submitted a timely correction noting that the designator should be Herald. Given this, we have registered this title as Black Talbot Herald. An Tir, Kingdom of. Heraldic title Demi-Lion Herald. Submitted as Demi-Lion, this title lacked the required designator. The kingdom submitted a timely correction noting that the designator should be Herald. Given this, we have registered this title as Demi-Lion Herald. Ceara inghean uí Mhadadháin. Name. Cormacc ua Néill. Name. Nice 12th C Irish name. Coryn of the Wode. Name and device. Sable, a pine tree eradicated and on a chief Or three lozenges pometty gules. The submitter requested a name authentic to 14th-16th C, but this request was not mentioned on the LoI. Fortunately, the issue is implicitly addressed in the commentary. Albion notes: ...the <Coryn> cited in the Petty Custom book is a Dutch merchant. The typical Dutch spelling of the name is <Corijn> this can be found in my "15th Century Dutch Names" (<http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/dutch/dutch15.html>). My and Kymma’s "Names from Antwerp, 1443-1561" (<http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/dutch/plaiser.html>) has <van den Bossche> ’of the forest’ dated to 1447, 1460, 1544, 1547, and 1550. (I don’t actually have any examples of any bynames containing <Woud> ’wood’ in any of my articles.) Add to this the citations in R&W s.n. Wood and <Coryn of the Wod> [sic] becames a plausible English form of a Dutch <Corijn van den Bossche>. Had this name not been substantially authentic already, and had the information above not been present in the commentary, we would have been forced to pend this for further research. Ernst Weissbaum. Name. The submitter requested an authentic name for 14th C Hamburg. However, we have no example of the byname Weissbaum that isn’t modern. While the submitter provided an argument that the name followed German byname patterns appropriate for the 14th C, without an example of the name in period, we cannot recommend it as an authentic name. We note that weissbaum is a ACCEPTANCES Page 2 of 25 May 2007 LoAR possible Middle High German (mittelhochdeutsch) word, but the language or dialect of German spoken in Hamburg in the 14th C is Middle Low German (mittelniederdeutsch). For that region, we would expect the byname to have a form starting with Wit or Witte; Brechenmacher, Etymologisches Woerterbuch der deutschen Familiennamen, shows several examples of Low German bynames starting with Wit and Witte that are cognates of High German starting with Weiss. It is unclear exactly what the appropriate form of Weissbaum would be in Low German, but it is probably similar to the modern Dutch surname Witboom. Gerard le Bon d’Orleans. Device. Per fess Or and purpure, a cross bottony and a dolphin naiant counterchanged. Juliana de Luna. Badge. (Fieldless) A crescent pendant sable. Nice badge. Juliana de Luna. Badge. (Fieldless) In bend a crescent sustained by a melusine argent. Katrin Odinsdottir. Name. There was question whether the name Odinsdottir was registerable. The answer is that it depends on the rest of the name. Odinsdottir was declared unregisterable as an Old Norse name, as no documentation has been found to support the use of the name Odin by ordinary humans during the time when Old Norse is appropriate: There was some discussion whether the use of Odin in this name was presumptuous. Indeed, the byname Odinsson was ruled unregisterable long ago: Of course he can’t be "Odinsson" without proof of his parentage. (KFW, 17 Aug 78 [21], p. 9) [N. Odinsson.] Let him submit a history form documenting whose son he is, or change his name. (HB, 5 Aug 72 [56], p. 1) In this case, the submitted documentation shows that Odin is found as "a man’s name found once in Nicolaa de Bracton’s article, ’A Statistical Survey of Given Names in Essex Co., England’" (http://members.tripod.com/nicolaa5/articles/names.html). Sommelier also found that Reaney & Wilson (pp. 327-328 s.n. Oden, Othen) "date Oudon 1066, Odin Goldeberd 1327, and Thomas Oden 1332 (among others)." These examples are sufficient to support the use of Odin as a rare name used by humans in English. As such, it is registerable in the patronymic form FitzOdin so long as there are no additional references to the mythological Odin or a child of Odin. Note, though, that no documentation was found of Odin used by humans in period in Old Norse. Lacking such evidence, it is continues to be unregisterable in an Old Norse patronymic byname. [Alan Fitz Odin, February 2003] However, the "Diplomatarium Norvegicum" (http://www.dokpro.uio.no/dipl_norv/diplom_field_eng.html) has an Odin Redulf sson in 1460 (document 240) and Nykolas Odin sson in 1468 (document 355). The name Katrin is found in 1468 (document 843) in the same source. Given this, Odin is a name used by normal humans in late period Norwegian, hence this name is registerable as a 15th C Norwegian name. Marie Helena von Bremen. Name (see RETURNS for device and badge). Submitted as Marie-Helene von Bremen, the submitter requested an authentic name. The name Helene is documented as a French name, but the rest of the name is German. The submitted documentation notes that Helena can be dated to 1364 and the 16th century in Germany. In addition, no evidence has been found for hyphenated given names in German in period. We have changed the name to Marie_Helena von Bremen in order to register it and to fulfill the submitter’s request for an authentic name. As registered, this is a reasonable 16th C German name. Mary Ostler. Name. Nice late 16th C English name! Mary Webb. Reblazon of device. Sable, in fess two lightning bolts palewise argent and a base wavy barry wavy Or and vert. Registered May 2005 with the blazon, Sable, two lightning bolts argent and a base wavy barry wavy Or and vert, this has been reblazoned to specify the orientation of the lightning bolts. Michael of Braghan. Device. Azure, a bend bevilled argent. The submitter has permission to conflict with the device for Adalasia Serena, Per bend sable and gules, a bend bevilled argent. Michelino di Gino Martini. Name and device. Per pale wavy purpure and Or, two chalices in bend counterchanged. Nice 15th C Italian name! Nemania Brigans. Name and device. Sable semy of decrescents argent, a torch Or enflamed gules and in chief a coronet Or. Submitted as Nyfain of Brigantia, the submitter requested a name authentic for 6th century Britain. The name Nyfain is a standard modern form of a name found in the 6th C. The bearer of this name is found in genealogies written between the 10th through the 14th C. The name is not a saint’s name. Early names found in later genealogies that are not saint’s names are not registerable in standard modern (or standard later medieval) forms unless documentation is provided that the name was in use when such a spelling would be appropriate.